Austrran Jewry is sitting on powder barel and any insignificant event may procipitate a crisis, Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association declared today in address to the Board of Deputies of British Jews. he said that extreme care in nessesary in anything said in this regard, and that meanwhile reports of a wholesale Jewish exodus from Austria wre unfounded, and that Austrian Jewry has not been involved in the dissaster which has overtaken ther Austrian Socialists.
The Aaglo-Jewish leader said that the Jewish situation in Germany is approaching condittions in Soviet Russia, when the government of that country refused to accept responsibility for the actions of the communist International. In the same fashion, he said, the German government is prohibiting anti-Jewish economic restrictions, whle semi-official bodies are oontinuing the campaign aganinst the Jews. Nevilie Laski, president of the
S2veral members of the Board of Deputies criticized the leaders of the Joint Foreign Committee, which Is composed of members of the Board of Deputies and of the Anglo-Jewish Association, fcr not -having evolved a constructive scheme of leadership, and merely pursuing relief methods.
BDimo Pearlman former Lord Mayor of Hull, criticized Premier Ramsay MacDonald for not having said a single word against the treatment ol German Jews and the present British government for not assuming any definite policy toward the persecuted Jews. Monteflore, who answered him, recalled to mind the speeches of Sii John Simon, British Foreign Minister and Minister Ormsby-Gore at Geneva condemning Hitlerism.
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